A Funerall Song

I Am the Life (the LORD thus saith)
The Resurrection is through me;
And whoso'ere in me hath faith,
Shall liue, yea though now dead he be:
And he for euer shall not dye,
That liuing doth on me relye.

That my Redeemer liues I ween,
And that at last I rais'd shall be
From earth, and, couer'd with my skinne
In this my flesh, my GOD shall see.
Yea, with these eyes, and these alone,
Eu'n I my GOD shall looke vpon.

Into the world we naked come,
And naked backe againe we goe:
The LORD our wealth receiue we from,
And he doth take it from vs too:
The LORD both wils, and workes the same;
And blessed therefore be his Name.

From Heau'n there came a voyce to me,
And this it wil'd me to record;
The Dead from henceforth blessed be,
The Dead that dyeth in the LORD:
The Spirit thus doth likewise say;
For, from their Workes at rest are they.